idolpro | Lucifel's Ideal World, v.2

—The world is ugly, he once declared.

Chaos is inevitable in this world. Pure good can’t be achieved, and pure evil breaks down. And these two extremes are always incompatible with each other. There is still some evil in a good world. That is how the world is, and it is what continues to create ugly things. Evil sneers at good, and good rages over evil. But, in a world where good and evil oppose each other, there is a group that is far more numerous that always appears.

That is ‘grey’. Neither good nor evil. A group that drifts through life haphazardly and merely exists. They don’t believe in goodness and are simply proud that they aren’t evil. Even though they affirm evil acts, they deny evil intentions. They happily say that ‘I am not evil, I am a good person’ and pardon all forms of cruelty.

They kill people while sneering. They kill people out of contempt. They kill people as part of a game. They use the excuse that they can’t restrain their desires—That’s how humans are. That’s how the world is.

Yes—this world is extremely ugly. Neither dyed by good nor fallen into evil. Unable to decide on a color, the wills of people continue to waver. As long as such evil intentions and such foul-smelling corpses aren’t destroyed.

The world will surely continue to rot eternally.

While wrapped within a curse-like fog in darkness frozen to its core.

He thus concluded.

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"One wish to any degree of impossibility"—indeed, for in the end, this system exists for the Holy Grail to grant wishes.

How long has the system been around? And no one has used it to try to improve humanity?

. . . I should explain something.

The system has been in place for a little over two hundred years now, but in the first place, it's something that was manmade. Humans—mages, specifically—created this device in order to create a certain miracle.

In creating this miracle, they would access the library of all knowledge—the Akashic Records. However, that is only for the sake of learning, and not for the sake of bettering humanity whatsoever.

Ordinarily, participants of this Grail War are all competing mages seeking to reach the Records. By the time I was summoned, there had already been three Wars that had taken place—three instances of mages pursuing their own self-serving goals.

Then how is it a device that can grant any wish?

Metaphorically speaking, a blank check of an inordinate amount of magical energy—practically limitless, if you can use it right—would naturally only need a signature. Moreover, as the Holy Grail, its "will" is to grant wishes. It is its function, in and of itself.

Edited 2020-08-22 08:54 (UTC)

I see. Well a tool is a tool, if it can find versatile use I suppose that makes sense.

Indeed. But, mages only use it in order to pursue knowledge and power, and with that, prestige. They don't bat an eye to the world around them—they'd burn it all if they knew that would get them closer to the Records.

That is rather short-sighted. What use power if not used for others?

Only destruction. Of others, and of the self.

Foolish. But those who lust for power are often so misguided.

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